Dimensions: 31.5 x 43.5 cm
inscribed l.d.: 'Journey', 'A Wróblewski' and p.g.'559' and '650' - by the artist's mother Krystyna Wróblewska
on the reverse '150'
Origins
private collection
artist's heirs
Exhibited
Exhibition of works by Andrzej Wróblewski on the 10th anniversary of his death, National Museum, Poznań; 10.04-14.05.1967
Andrzej Wróblewski 1927-1957, National Museum, Warsaw; 5.02- 3.03.1968
Immediately after the war, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; 03.10.2015 - 10.01.2016
Literature
Immediately After the War, edited by Joanna Kordjak and Agnieszka Szewczyk, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2015.
Avoiding Intermediate States. Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957), edited and scholarly concept by Magdalena Ziolkowska and Wojciech Grzybala, published by Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Warsaw 2014, item 130, p. 162.
Exhibition of works by Andrzej Wróblewski on the 10th anniversary of his death, National Museum, Poznań, 1967, item 150.
Andrzej Wróblewski. Posthumous Exhibition, catalog of monographic exhibition, Palace of Art, Cracow, 1958, list of works not exhibited, item 650.
Biography
From 1945-52 studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and art history at the Jagiellonian University. From 1946 he participated in exhibitions, and from 1948 he was also involved in journalism, mainly in the field of art. From 1950-54 he served as an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studios of Prof. Radnicki and Prof. Rudzka-Cybisowa, among others. He died on March 23, 1957 on a solitary excursion in the Tatra Mountains. In his works, using an original and fascinating painterly language, he expressed in a highly evocative way the tragic experiences of a generation growing up during the war and entering maturity during Stalinist times. Considered a forerunner of new figuration, contemporary realism, also new expression, he is among the greatest Polish painters of the 20th century.